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Hong Kong has fallen, democracy there officially died after they refused to let those two legislators swear in. Not sure whose idea it was to let HK get handed
by imjustsaying 10y ago
Hong Kong has fallen, democracy there officially died after they refused to let those two legislators swear in.
Not sure whose idea it was to let HK get handed over to the commies back in the 1990's, why Taiwan didn't make a louder claim to it, or why HK didn't assert its right to independence from extraterritorial governments altogether.
- Tuna-Fish 10y agoAt that point, Hong Kong was entirely dependent from the fresh water provided by the mainland, to the point that if the taps were ever closed, hundreds of thousands would have died before alternative sources would have been available. You cannot just ship enough water for 6.5M people, and HK authorities were scared that if they started constructing desalinization systems, PRC would pressure them to stop doing that with the threat of immediately cutting off the water. PRC had effective power over HK before they were granted legal power over it. Before the time of the transition they stressed that all the current treaties for water were written to end at the time of transition, and that they would not be willing to renegotiate them. Any attempt to keep HK or to turn them over to Taiwan would have resulted in mass death and evacuations.
- imjustsaying 10y agoThanks for sharing. I had wondered what the word on the street was and couldn't find good information about it despite having searched before.
- RugnirViking 10y agoThank you for this information, very interesting!
- tjalfi 10y agoThe British had a 99 year lease - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a-lease-no-one-thought-would-run-out-1281384.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a-lease-no-one-thoug....